After Messi scored, the balance on the field was broken.
After the game restarted, the Chilean team, which was lagging behind, took advantage of the opportunity of the restart and started to attack fiercely. Argentina shrank its defense, including Messi, Pastore, Lavezzi, etc., all retreated significantly to participate in the defense.
When Messi scored, it was already the 68th minute, less than half an hour before the end of regular game time.
This is the final and if Chile can't equalize within regular playing time, they will lose.
Therefore, after attacking for several minutes without scoring a goal, the Chilean team began to make substitutions, directly using up all the substitution quotas, continuously replacing offensive players in the midfield and frontcourt, and all members went into the attack.
In the 79th minute, Chile used a wing attack to drop the ball into the penalty area. Forward Eduardo Vargas got stuck in his position and overwhelmed Otamendi. He finally grabbed the first point and formed a header, but the result was Goalkeeper Romero made a world-class save and saved the ball from the baseline.
The subsequent corner kick was grabbed by Alan Willard and pushed out of the penalty area to clear the ball, but failed to pose a threat.
In the 83rd minute, Chilean midfielder Jorge Valdivia took a long shot from outside the penalty area about 25 meters away from the goal. As a result, Mascherano flew to block the hole of the gun and blocked it, and then was snatched by Velarde. Come to the rescue at the second point.
As time went by, there was less and less time left for the Chilean team, and the Chilean players on the field became more and more anxious. In the end, even the central defender pressed to the outside of Argentina's penalty area to participate in the attack. Even goalkeeper Bravo stood outside the penalty area, ready to receive the back pass from his teammates.
There were basically no fans sitting in the stands. Regardless of Argentina or Chile, everyone was standing and cheering for their teams.
Under such circumstances, when the time came to the 90th minute and injury time had already entered, the Chilean team's pass was seen through by Velarde, and he suddenly jumped up and intercepted the ball. Before the opponent's player could counterattack, Velarde passed the ball to Messi not far from the right front, then bypassed the Chilean player who counterattacked and rushed towards the Chilean half at high speed.
As a result, Messi did not give Velarde a chance to get forward. After receiving Velarde's pass, he stopped and passed the Chilean defender Beausejour who was dodging the counterattack. He looked up at the Chilean team's goal. , just over 50 meters away from the goal in his own half, he suddenly used all his strength to take a long shot.
The ball rose into the air and flew towards the Chilean team's goal. Chilean goalkeeper Bravo, who had unknowingly moved outside the penalty area, was shocked and quickly turned around to fight back.
However, his return speed could not keep up with the speed of the ball flying in the air. Before he could reach the small penalty area line, the ball had already flown over Bravo's head. Bravo jumped up in a futile attempt to reach the ball, but failed and lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.
The ball fell into the Chilean team's goal in front of Bravo's eyes.
In the 90th minute of stoppage time, Messi received an assist from Velarde and suddenly lobbed a shot from the midfielder, once again piercing the Chilean team's goal.
Messi scored twice in the final and helped Argentina lead Chile 2-0, basically sealing the victory.
As Messi's midfield lob shot successfully scored, all Argentinian fans and neutral fans at the scene and in front of the TV cheered and screamed excitedly, giving Argentina a 2-0 lead and also for Messi's long-range kick. Bo, also scored twice for him in the final.
